The Capitalist Manifesto

Bailouts are the problem, not the solution. Yaron Book pleads, let my market go!

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[yoyohihiyohi]

lmfao..."all them pussies"

Because someone believes in free trade and individual wealth instead of giving their hard earned money to people who sit on their fucking ass all day and smoke cigarettes and drink booze makes them a pussy? I've seen it all now.

[Koutetsu]

Can we be done with the labor theory of value? Please, it's the 21st century. Man values goods according to the relative importance of the satisfaction they provide, not some magical innate property that exists outside of human consciousness.

[reasonableaustin]

@yoyohihiyohi with communism it is NOT individual wealth. It is the most un-individualized system possible. It is the complete collective of all persons where no one can strive to be greater. To quote the anonymous, "Capitalism is the worst market system of all.......if you dont count any other in the equation." It is only when you delude yourself into seeing every capitalist as a "pig" or a "fat-ass" that you can also delude yourself into thinking that this horrible system could work.

[BurntEngineOil]

The period between the Civil War and 1929 had some of the worst boom-bust cycles in US history. This guys proposed solution is guaranteed to make things worse.

[TheGanjaClub]

And why people who want to buy cannabis MUST intercourse with a mafia, thereby putting themselves at risk and are wary of police persecution? Is it not better if they ACQUIRE Cannabis special place by the State. Where are DIRTY MONEY? Why ordinary people can not engaged in this business, plant seeds, watered, grow, harvest, delivered to the state and thereby earn a living CLEAN MONEY.

[MrMincer]

@clubsandwedge

Are you serious?

The point is that if there was an equal distribution of wealth Africa wouldn't be poor in the first place.

[clubsandwedge]

You have lived your life and you donate to rehab centres and charity funds in pitiful memory of the drugged up hippy. Where is the 'dog eat dog' in this situation?

[clubsandwedge]

Would you share your house with a smelly dirty hippy who didn't pay his rent? Now imagine you are an industrious writer. Your genius could not thrive under such a burden. There is too many unnecessary responsibilities, too many claims from the hippy. He is kicked out and now you fully enjoy all of your money. Life becomes a lot better. With this free time you write a succesful book that makes you worth hundreds of millions.

[clubsandwedge]

@MrMincer

If there was a more equal distribution of wealth less people would be charitable so there would be less aid to Africa.

[theoriginalmrsm]

That is NOT the definition of a straw man. A straw man is creating a false argument and ascribing it to your opponent and then "knocking it down" because you made it intentionally flawed.

[MrMincer]

Then let me redefine the labor theory of value as following: The fairest way of setting up a system/method for people to valuate goods is to base it on the idea that value is ultimately always the effect of human labor.

And as an extension of proposing that statement, I propose to base the economy on this very statement and the principle of solidarity.

I propose, therefore, to free the people of the world from the chains of wage slavery, that you want to maintain in the name of 'freedom'.

[Koutetsu]

It's not in capital, or labor, or producer's goods, or rocks, or oil, or dirt, or diamonds. Material objects as such have neither value nor disvalue; they acquire value-significance only in regard to a living being, particularly, in regard to serving or hindering mans goals. Value presupposes a valuer, in answer to the question "to whom" and "for what.' Economic value is set by the marginal utility an item provides to the valuer.